Artist/Designer: Gina Cromwell, Donal Woods
Project Location: England
Style/Period(s):
Rococo Revival
Primary Material(s):
Wood
Function(s):
Residential Structure
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 21st Century, 2009, 2010-2019
Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Fellowes, Jessica; Sturgis, Matthew (2012). The Chronicles of Downton Abbey. Foreword by Julian Fellowes, photography by Joss Barratt, Nick Briggs, and Giles Keyte. London, UK: Collins.
Fellowes, Jessica (2011). The World of Downton Abbey. Foreword by Julian Fellowes, photography by Nick Briggs. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Fellowes, Julian (2013). Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts: Season One. New York: William Morrow.
Fellowes, Julian (2013). Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts: Season Two. New York: William Morrow.
Fellowes, Julian (2014). Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts: Season Three. New York: William Morrow.
Goldberg, Edward. "How Downton Abbey Resonates in America Today." In Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Are Destroying Our Country, 85-106. University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Hinckley, David. "Downton Abbey: “The Finale”." In Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls, edited by Howard Douglas L. and Bianculli David, 105-10. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Lawrence, Lindsy. "Consuming Pleasures: Nineteenth-Century Cookery as Narrative Structure in Downton Abbey." In Devouring Cultures: Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey, edited by Sublette Cammie M. and Martin Jennifer, 123-44. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
Lichtman, Sarah, and Pat Kirkham. Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
MacColl, Gail; Wallace, Carol McD. (1989). To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started. New York: Workman Publishing.
Rowley, Emma (2013). Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey. Foreword by Gareth Neame; photography by Nick Briggs. New York: St. Martin's Press.
West, Nancy M. "The Worlds of Downton Abbey." South Atlantic Review 80, no. 3-4 (2015): 215-33.
Building Address: Highclere Park, Highclere, Newbury RG20 9RN, United Kingdom
Tags: United Kingdom, England, Downton Abbey, Film, Television, Highclere Castle, Roccoco Revival, 20th Century, 1910-1926, 21st Century, Donal Woods, Gina Cromwell
Significant Dates: Original castle constructed in 1679, and renovated in the 1840s, filming began 2009-2010 and lasted until 2015. The Downton Abbey film was filmed in 2018-2019.
Supporting Staff/ Designers: Gina Cromwell, Donal Woods, Lord and Lady Carnarvon
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